Crossing for elevated cable railways



(No Model.)

l E. R GUERRA. CROSSING POR ELEVATEDGABLE RAILWAYS.

No. 425,220. PatentedApr. 8, 1890 WITNESSES.'

INVENTUH @few/u L i S BY .l

UNITED STATES ELIAS R. GUERRA, OF HACIENDA DE SAN MATIAS, JALISCO,MEXICO.

CROSSING FOR ELEVATED CABLE RAILWAYS.

'SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 425,220, dated April 8,1890.

Application filed February 13, 1890. Serial No, 340,279. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, ELIAS R. GUERRA, of Hacienda de San Matias, Jalisco,Mexico, a citizen' of Mexico, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Crossings for Elevated Cable Railways, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object'of my invention is to provide a new and improved crossing forelevated cable railways, which is so constructed that the rails of thecrossing are at all times open for the tracks running in bothdirections, so that a car on either track can pass without meeting anyobstructions, which crossing` is automatically closed for each track bya car running on said track when it reaches the crossing, the crossingbeing automatically opened after the car has passed.

The invention consists in the combination, with a rail, of a hingedsection, a spring for automatically raising said section, and a hingedbar for swinging down the section when a train or car arrives.

The invention also consists in the construction and combination ofparts, as willbe fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of -atrack-section provided with my improved crossing. Eig. 2 is a plan viewof the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3 3, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Each rail A has a part cut out to form an opening or gap through whichthe cable-grip of a car passing in adirection at right angles to saidrail can pass, said openingbeing closed in each rail by thetrack-section B, hinged at one end to the rail A. A Wire rope or chain Chas one end secured to a pin D, projecting laterally from the hingedrail-section B, some distance from the pivot of the same, which rope orcha-in C is passed over a suitable pulley D, and the other end of saidrope or chain is secured to a powerful spring E, suitably fastened to astandard on the track or to any other suitable object of said track. Abar F has one end mounted on the pin D of the hinged railsection B, andthe other end rests loosely on a grooved roller G on the outside of therail A. Both tracks are provided at the crossing with hingedrail-sections, as shown in Fig. 2, and normally all said hinged sectionsare held in raised position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. Lbythe action of the springs E, the bars F also being in raised position,as shown in dotted lines'in Fig. l.

IVhen a car arrives at the crossing, the treads of the wheels acting onthe upper edges of the bars F force said bars downward, thereby swingingthe corresponding hinged sections B from the vertical positions shown indot-ted lines in Fig. l to the hori- Zontal positions shown in fulllines in Fig. l, thereby closing the gaps in the rails and permittin gthe train to pass safely over the opening. The hinged rail-sections B ofthe other track, at right angles to the one on which the car is passingthe crossing, remain raised. After the last wheel of the car has passedover said hinged sections B the springs C swing the said rail-sections Cupward again, thus leaving clear the opening at the crossing for a trainpassing in a direction at right angles to the direction taken by thetrain that has just passed. The four hinged sections of the crossing donot interfere with each other, as the hinged sections of one track onlycan be lowered at a time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. The combination, with a railway-track having a gapor opening, of a hinged railsection for closing said gap, a spring forkeeping said section in raised position, and a bar arranged adjacent tothe rail and connected with said hinged section, substantially as setforth.

2. In a railwaytrack, the combination,with rails having gaps, of hingedsections for closing said gaps, springs for swinging` the hingedsections into raised positions, a bar connected with each hingedsection, and a roller on which that end of the bar opposite the oneconnected with the hinged section rests, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with Atwo tracks cross# ing each other at rightangles and in the same plane, each rail of each track having a gap atsaid intersection, of a hinged section piv- IOO oted t0 each rail forclosing the gap, a spring my invention Ihavo Signed my naine in pres-Connectod with each hin god section for keeponce of two Subscribingwitnesses. ing the hinged section in raised position, and

a bal' pivotod to each hinged section and al'- 4ELIAS R. GU ERRA. 5ranged adjacent to the corresponding rail, Witnesses:

substantially as sot forth. OSCAR F. GUNZ,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as WILLIAM' HAY.

